In today’s post we walk our readers through the process of using our favorite free, open source audio editing software for Mac OS X, aka Audacity to fix this clipping and restore the recording to a normal, non-distorted state!

If your audio sounds too loud or is noticeably distorted, and when looking at the waveform, appears similar to the image below rather than the one above, this tutorial will show you exactly how to repair the audio as best as possible, without having to re-record!